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25 December 2004.

See also Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone.

1,364 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

See also DoD tally: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf

Army Maj. Michael Cohen is shown in this undated photo provided by his family. Shortly after a bombing at the U.S. base in Mosul killed 22 people, Cohen described the chaotic scene to his friends and relatives back home through a vivid Web log. ``No one had any idea what was about to take place,'' wrote Cohen, a Bucks County native who was the chief ER surgeon at the base during bombing, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004. (AP Photo/Family photo via The Philadelphia Inquirer)	Army Maj. Michael Cohen writes: THURSDAY, 23 DECEMBER 2004 - NO RESPECT Just recently visited the Fox News website and saw a link that said, "Doctors Work to Save Wounded." I was shocked to see that there might be some news about the medical assets in Mosul. We have had a bunch of reporters around lately. I thought maybe the CSH was getting some good press. Well click on the link and see what the story is about... No respect. With the risk of insulting fellow colleagues at Landstuhl I am going to refrain from commenting on this. Well, alright, I'll make a comment, but I'll try to behave. We really appreciate the help from all the medical personnel at Landstuhl. They are definitely instrumental in the process of taking care of our wounded military personnel. However, between us, they get to go home every night to be with their families. They get to go out to eat at nice German restaurants and drink an occasional beer or glass of wine. When they wake up in the middle of the night they do not have to go outside in the cold to go to the bathroom. And, most importantly, no one is shooting at them or firing mortars at them while they are trying to sort through 91 patients. Oh yeah, one more thing - WE SAVED those wounded; the doctors at Landstuhl were continuing OUR efforts. We feel like Rodney Dangerfield - no respect. Actually, I don't really care for the press and I prefer not seeing much about Mosul in the news (less things for my family and friends to worry about). You guys know the real story, that is what is important to me. Another thing that is important to me are the Soldiers of the 67th CSH that did such an incredible job on Tuesday - every person in the entire CSH had an important role in that chaos, and every person reached deep inside and gave it their all that day. That is why we are so good at what we do. _____ Top US war officials go home at night to luxurious safehouses: http://cryptome.org/osp-eyeball.htm "It was predawn when Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld emerged from his $3,350,000 three-story brick house in the Kalorama section of Washington and stepped into the back of his armored SUV. ..."
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Scott Johnson is shown in an undated photo provided by his family. Johnson, 23, of Seaside, Calif., was killed in Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, when a suicide bomber blew up an Army mess tent at a U.S. base near Mosul, wounding 66 and killing 22 people. (AP Photo/Family Photo via The (Salinas) Californian)	The parents of Marine Lance Cpl. Franklin Alan Sweger, Susie Hernandez, second from left, and Frank Sweger, second from right, receive U.S. flags at the graveside funeral service in San Antonio for their son Friday, Dec. 24, 2004, in San Antonio. Sweger, 24, was killed Dec. 16 while serving in Iraq. He was in the Marines for nearly four years and was due to return home early next year, according to a Marine spokesman. Also pictured are Sweger's stepfather Steven Hernandez, left, and his stepmother, Becky Sweger, right. AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Kin Man Hui)
** CORRECTS DATELINE FROM CORONA TO RIVERSIDE ** Desiree Cook, 21, left, girlfriend of Spc. Jonathan Castro, is comforted by her friend Christen Allen, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, in Riverside, Calif. Castro, 21, was killed near Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday Dec. 21, 2004, in an explosion in a mess hall. He was assigned to the 73rd Engineer Company, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash. (AP Photo/The Press-Enterprise, Carrie Rosema) ** MANDATORY CREDIT **	Spc. Jonathan Castro, of Corona, Calif., is shown in this undated family photo. Castro, 21, was killed near Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday Dec. 21, 2004, in an explosion in a mess hall. Castro was assigned to the 73rd Engineer Company, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash. (AP Photo/family photo via The Press-Enterprise)
National Guardsman Spc. David Ruhren relaxes with his dog, Kayla, Nov. 24, 2004, during a surprise visit to see his mother at her home in north Stafford County, Va. Ruhren, 20, was killed Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, in the attack on the mess hall Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Robert A. Martin)	Lt. Shawn Otto of Williamsburg, Va. rests quietly on the floor of a locally-run food court at the Mosul Airfield while waiting for his lunch, Christmas eve, Friday, Dec. 24, 2004. As part of heightened security measures at military installations around Mosul, Iraq, chairs were removed from the eating area of the popular hangout. (AP Photo/ Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)
A man stones a burning bus in Mosul Saturday Dec. 25 2004. The bus was carrying Iraqi National Guards when it came under a roadside bomb attack that killed five and wounded three guardsmen. (AP Photo)	Jorge and Vickie Castro, parents of Spc. Jonathan Castro, stand in the kitchen, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, in their home in Riverside, Calif. Castro, 21, was killed near Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday Dec. 21, 2004, in an explosion in a mess hall. He was assigned to the 73rd Engineer Company, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash. (AP Photo/The Press-Enterprise, Carrie Rosema) ** MANDATORY CREDIT **
Rescue workers dig out a body of a man buried in the rubble of his home in Baghdad's Mansour district Saturday Dec 25 2004. . Nine people died and 14 were seriously wounded when a tanker truck exploded Friday night.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)	Rescue workers carry the body of a person they found in the rubble of his home in Baghdad's Mansour district Saturday Dec 25 2004. . Nine people died and 14 were seriously wounded when a tanker truck exploded Friday night. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Medics help people wounded after unknown gunmen opened fire in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)	In this picture made Friday Dec. 24 2004 and released by the British Ministry of Defence, a choir representing every nation in the multinational division (SE) in Basra, southern Iraq stand around a Christmas tree donated by the Danish Battalion and sing carols to a gathering of sailors, soldiers and airmen, in the airport hotel building.(AP Photo/Cpl Pete Murray/MoD Crown copyright) ** NO SALES **
Wasan Dhakil, 10, lies in a hospital bed with burns in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004 after a butane truck that was parked near the Libyan Embassy in the upscale Mansour district blew up killing one person, wounding 19 Friday night. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)	In this image from TV, a fire burns in the upscale Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday Dec. 24, 2004, after a gas tanker exploded just hours after U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld left the capital, police said. Some twenty people were wounded in the blast, according to a doctor at Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital. (AP photo/APTN) ** TV OUT **
Rescue workers carry the body of a person they found in the rubble of his home in Baghdad's Mansour area . Nine people died and 14 were seriously wounded in the truck bomb blast on Friday night. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)	US soldiers inspect a home destroyed in a blast in Baghdad's Mansour district Saturday Dec 25 2004. Police on Saturday said nine people died and 14 were seriously wounded in a gas tanker explosion in west Baghdad that occurred late Friday, just hours after Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld left the capital following a surprise visit. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
A US soldier walks by debris that fell on Lybian Embassy in Baghdad's Mansour district Saturday Dec 25 2004. Police on Saturday said nine people died and 14 were seriously wounded in a gas tanker explosion in west Baghdad that occurred just hours after US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld left the capital following a surprise visit. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)	A US soldier and rescue workers inspect a home destroyed in a blast in Baghdad's Mansour district Saturday Dec 25 2004. Police on Saturday said nine people died and 14 were seriously wounded in a gas tanker explosion late Friday in west Baghdad that occurred just hours after US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld left the capital following a surprise visit. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Maj. John Nelson, right, with the 133rd Engineer Battalion of the Maine Army National Guard, sings during a candlelight Christmas service at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosel, Iraq, in the early morning hours Christmas Day, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004. Nelson, formerly of Big Stone Gap, Va., took shrapnel in his back Tuesday during the bombing of the dining facility at the base. (AP Photo/The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)	Sgt. Angela Damon of Buckfield, Maine, sings Christmas carols during a midnight Christmas service at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq on Sat., Dec. 25, 2004. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)
U.S. troops sing during a candlelight Christmas service at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq in the early morning hours of Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004. (AP Photo/ Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)	Just after Midnight on Christmas morning, U.S. Marines in Iraq sit inside a dining hall used as a chapel, while a Marine chaplain delivers a Midnight religious service in celebration of Christmas, at Hurricaine Point Marine Base, Ramadi, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 25. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Sgt. Danny Churchill of Washburn, Maine, and Spc. Zachary Garrison of Buxton, Maine, right, salute while paying their last respects to Spc. Thomas Dostie and Sgt. Lynn Poulin at a memorial service at Forward Operations Base Marez, in Mosul, Iraq, on Friday, Dec. 24, 2004. Dostie and Poulin, both from Maine, were among those killed in a suicide bombing at the base Tuesday. (AP Photo/Portland Press Herald, Gregory Rec) **MANDATORY CREDIT**	Spc. Sean Lawrence of Augusta, Maine, a close friend of Spc. Thomas Dostie, also of Maine, rests his head in his hands during a prayer at a memorial service for Dostie and Sgt. Lynn Poulin at Forward Operations Base Marez, Mosul, Iraq, on Friday, Dec. 24, 2004,. Dostie and Poulin, of Maine, were among the 22 killed in a suicide bombing at the base Tuesday. (AP Photo/Portland Press Herald, Gregory Rec) **MANDATORY CREDIT**
People decorate a Christmas tree with slogans to protest against capitalism, corruption, the war in Iraq, the educational system and hunger in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, Dec. 24, 2004. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)	In this photo released by the British Ministry of Defence, Friday Dec. 24, 2004, British troops enjoy their Christmas meal complete with a traditional Christmas Box of gifts, inside the Basra Air Station military base, in Basra, Iraq, on Friday, Dec.24, 2004. The troops, wearing their bright-red Santa hats, drank beer and pulled Christmas crackers as they celebrated Christmas far from home on Friday at their base in Basra, Iraq. The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) organised a Christmas box packed with gifts for every British serviceman. (AP photo / British Ministry of Defence/Cpl Pete Murray, HO)
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld wears the hat of the Army's 1st Cavalry Division as he serves food to soldiers in the Pegasus Dining Facility at Camp Victory North in Baghdad, Iraq, on Dec. 24, 2004. Rumsfeld is in Iraq to meet with troops and thank them for their service and their sacrifice during this holiday season. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)	Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld wears the hat of the Army's 1st Cavalry Division as he serves food to soldiers in the Pegasus Dining Facility at Camp Victory North in Baghdad, Iraq, on Dec. 24, 2004. Rumsfeld is in Iraq to meet with troops and thank them for their service and their sacrifice during this holiday season. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld shakes hands with a soldier from the Army's 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division at Mosul, Iraq, on Dec. 24, 2004. Rumsfeld is in Iraq to meet with troops and thank them for their service and their sacrifice during this holiday season. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)	Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld shakes hands with Marines from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at the Camp Fallujah Dining Facility in Fallujah, Iraq, on Dec. 24, 2004. Rumsfeld is in Iraq to meet with troops and thank them for their service and their sacrifice during this holiday season. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld talks to Marines from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at the Camp Fallujah Dining Facility in Fallujah, Iraq, on Dec. 24, 2004. Rumsfeld is in Iraq to meet with troops and thank them for their service and their sacrifice during this holiday season. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)	Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld greets soldiers from the Army's 1st Infantry Division Headquarters, in Tikrit, Iraq, on Dec. 24. 2004. Rumsfeld is in Iraq to meet with troops and thank them for their service and their sacrifice during this holiday season. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld talks to soldiers at the Pegasus Dining Facility at Camp Victory North in Baghdad, Iraq, on Dec. 24, 2004. Rumsfeld is in Iraq to meet with troops and thank them for their service and their sacrifice during this holiday season. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)	Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld talks to Marines from the1st Marine Expeditionary Force at the Camp Fallujah Dining Facility in Fallujah, Iraq, on Dec. 24, 2004. Rumsfeld is in Iraq to meet with troops and thank them for their service and their sacrifice during this holiday season. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
Lance Corporal Luke Scully, 24, of the British Army Air Corps, based at Guttersloh, Germany, guards the front gate of Basra Air Station, Iraq, Friday Dec. 24, 2005, in this photo made available in London by the Ministry of Defence.(AP Photo/Pete Murray, MOD ho)	In this picture released by the U.S. Marines, an Army soldier holds up cue cards as comedian David Letterman delivers his opening monologue written specifically for the troops during "The Late Show" at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, on Friday, Dec. 24, 2004. Letterman, along with his musical director Paul Shaffer and stage manager Biff Henderson, brought the popular late night television show to the Marines, sailors and soldiers currently stationed at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq. (AP Photo/U.S. Marines, Sgt. Luis R. Agostini)
Spc. Seth White of Marion, Va., wears reindeer antlers on his helmet as Sgt. Eric Wagner of North Carolina, center, and Staff Sgt. Tommy Quigley of Hopewell, Va., talk outside their living quarters on Forward Operating Base Marez, Friday, Dec. 24, 2004 in Mosul, Iraq. With high security at the base after Tuesday's bombing, soldiers have been a bit somber in their celebration of the holidays, with flashes of levity to lighten the mood. (AP Photo/ Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)	U.S. and Iraqi forces search a vehicle outside of Forward Opearting Base Marez, in Mosul, Iraq on Friday, Dec, 24, 2004. Heightened security since the Tuesday attack which killed 22 is apparent in all areas of the base. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)
Iraqis walk to the checkpoint hoping to be allowed back to the town of Fallujah, Iraq, Friday Dec. 24 2004. On Friday, thousands more displaced citizens returned to inspect their homes in Fallujah. (AP Photo/Mohammed Khodor)	An Iraqi shows papers to a US soldier, as he waits to be allowed back to the town of Fallujah, Iraq, Friday Dec. 24 2004. On Friday, some 4,000 more displaced citizens returned to inspect their homes in Fallujah. (AP Photo/Mohammed Khodor)
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, on a surprise Christmas Eve stands with troops in their base in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday Dec. 24 2004. (AP Photo/Nick Wadhams)	U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, on a surprise Christmas Eve stands with troops in their base in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday Dec. 24 2004. (AP Photo/Nick Wadhams)
Iraqi family stands in ruins of their home that was destroyed Thursday when insurgents bombed a police station next door in Ramadi, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 24, 2004. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)	A man stands in front of his home in Ramadi, Iraq, that was destroyed Thursday when insurgents bombed a police station nearby Friday, Dec. 24, 2004. (AP Photo/Omar Barakat)
A man walks through the rubble of a government building in Ramadi, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 24, 2004, after it was destroyed when insurgents planted explosives Thursday night. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)	Iraqi boys inspect the rubble of a police station in Ramadi, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 24, 2004, after it was destroyed when insurgents planted explosives Thursday night. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND DEC. 25-26** Sgt. Arturo Noriega, of the Army's Bravo Company, 3/7 Infantry, guides a Bradley Fighting Vehicle Dec. 16, 2004 into line in Fort Stewart, Ga., before it is loaded and shipped off to Iraq. Noriega is a gunner aboard the Bradley and will be deployed along with most of the division next month for their second rotation for Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)	** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND DEC. 25-26 ** Sgt. Mark Matekovic, of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, prepares his Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Dec. 16, 2004 in Fort Stewart, Ga., before it is loaded and shipped off to Iraq. Matekovic is a gunner aboard the Bradley and will be deployed along with most of the division next month for their second rotation for Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND DEC. 25-26 ** Sgt. Mark Matekovic, right, inspects the M-16 rifle of Pfc. Michael Hudak, left, Dec. 16, 2004, while checking their equipment in Fort Stewart, Ga., before deploying to Iraq. The soldiers are with the Army's 3/7 Infantry unit attached to the 3rd Infantry Division that will deploy next month for their second rotation for Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)	In this photograph released by the US Army, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, right, and 1st Infantry Division Commanding General, Maj. Gen. John R.S. Batiste discuss progress in Iraq, at Forward Operating Base Danger in Tikrit, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 24 2004. (AP Photo/US Army, Spc. David Dyer)
** CORRECTS TO PHOTO AS STAND-ALONE, NOT FOR USE AS ADVANCE ** U.S. Marine Alex Nicoll, second from left, sits on his hospital bed with his mother, Penni Nicoll, left, father, Larry Nicoll, right, and brother, Will Nicoll, at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004, in, Bethesda, Md. Alex Nicoll got pinned down in a firefight in Fallujah and suffered an injury that cost him his leg. Nicoll's platoon was going house-to-house, ferreting out insurgents when he was shot seven or eight times in his left leg and hit by a grenade. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)	In this photograph released by the White House, President Bush places Christmas Eve phone calls to members of the armed forces from Camp David, Friday, Dec. 24, 2004. (AP Photo/The White House, Eric Draper)
LOWLIGHTS OF 2004 ** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS DEC. 25-26, FILE ** Luggage and backpack maker Tom Bihn holds a laptop case containing a care tag that included French language insults against the president--some assume George W. Bush, April 9, 2004, in Port Angeles, Wash. The care tag mysteriously made its way onto hundreds of Bihn's laptop bags and backpacks, drawing national media attention and sparking Internet chatter. Bihn, 43, said he knew nothing of the tag until calls and e-mails started coming in from peoplearound the country asking for ``the bag with the label.'' (AP Photo/The Peninsula Daily News, Keith Thorpe, file)	LOWLIGHTS OF 2004 ** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS DEC. 25-26, FILE ** A tag like those sewn into bags and backpacks manufactured by urban-bag designer Tom Bihn is shown April 9, 2004, in Port Angeles, Wash. A Seattle customer who deciphered his bag's bilingual washing instructions discovered an insult against the president, some assume George W. Bush, reading "We are sorry that our president is an idiot. We didn't vote for him." Bihn, 43, said he knew nothing of the tag until calls and e-mails started coming in from people around the country asking for "the bag with the label." (AP Photo/Peninsula Daily News, Keith Thorpe, file)